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Abu-Salem, Hani; Al-Omari, Mahmoud; Evens, Martha W. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Investigates how to improve the performance of an Arabic Information Retrieval System (Arabic-IRS) by imposing the retrieval method, Mixed Stemming, over individual words of a query depending on the importance of the word, the stem or the root of the query terms in the database. This method computes term importance using a Term Frequency and…
Descriptors: Arabic, Computer System Design, Databases, Indexes